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Patented Oct. 6,1908.

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s'peeineation of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

` Application filed November 1, 1907. Serial No. 400,163.

To all whom it may concern.' .y

Be it known that 1, @HARLEY GRANT WARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at J effersonville, in the county of Clark and State oflndiana,have invented a new and Vuseful File-Cabinet,

of which they following is a specification.`

The object of the invention is the piro-V` vision of a file cabinetparticularly adapted for use with a filing system which will behereinafter described. Figure l is a perspective view ofthe cabinetclosed; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the cabinet with the front doorlet down to formV ing the arrangementoffthe register of salesmen; Fig.9, a view showing the arrangement of the ledger index; and, Fig. 10, a

view showing the arrangement of the ledger.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the severalviews of the 1 drawings.

A book or pad 1, of orderblanks (Fig.

5) is provided, consisting of printed pages numbered consecutively withnumerals preferably printed in red in order that they may not beobliterated by writing over them with a pencil. The lines upon which thenames of the articles ordered are to be written may be numbered asshown. Beneath each order blank is provided a blank leaf 3, upon which acarbon or duplicate copy ofthe written order is made. A carbon sheet 4Lis VprovidedA to be placed between the order blankV and, `of. duplicatethe blank leaf. This` form order book I do not claim as my invention,for it is already on the market. An order book, such as described, isvgiven to each salesman at the beginning of the day. `The order blanksand duplicate pages are perforated in the usual manner, as shown at 5,in order that they may be easily removed from' the stub 6, where theyare bound together.

When the order books arel givenv to the salesmen, the ordinal number,shown at 2, upon the topmost blank isrecorded opposite the salesmansnumber under the proper date in a register of salesmen 7 (Fig. 8). Thepage shown in Fig. 8 shows that all the salesmen started with a new bookon January lst, and 'consequently the order blanks are all No.` l. OnJanuary 1st, salesman No. 1 may have written fourteen orders, and hencethe topmost blank on his order book, on January 2nd,will be No. l5. Thesalesmans register is kept in order to determine how many order blankseach salesman has used during the day in order that they may all beaccounted for at the end of the day.

At the end of the day each salesman passes in his'pad ofduplicate ordersto the proprietor or the bookkeeper. If the proprietor keeps the books,which hel may easily do with my improved system, he takes the padsconsecutively, looks through each pad to ascertain ifthe duplicates areconsecutive and none are missing, removes the duplicates from the stub,and places them upon a table 8, which I prefer to form of the front doorvof `a cabinet 17." The table 8 is provided with the letters of thealphabet suitably arranged. As the orders are removed from lthe stubs,they are placed alphabetically according to the customers names in` thespaces under the corresponding letters on the Y table. Suitable spaces,are also provided and marked P aid and Void (Figs. `2 and 3) upon whichduplieatesof paid orders and void orders respectively are placed. Thenthe duplicates marked paid are assorted al* phabetically, the amountsadded, and the resulting amount checked with the cash in the cashdrawer, after which they are added to the bottom of the pile of chargedduplicates. The voided duplicates may be added also finally, if desired;By this means they may be quickly assorted alphabetically.

`When the order duplicates have been assorted Vthe different piles areplaced upon eachother successively, beginning with A, and thus all theduplicates are assembled into a book 12, arranged alphabetically. bycustomers names. VA perforation 9 is provided in the duplicates throughwhich is now placed a paper fastener 10. A tab 11, having a suspendingring, may now be stuck to the back of book l2 and fastened by means offastener 10. The order duplicates are `then numbered consecutively bywriting upon eacha pagenumber, as shown at 13. If a bookkeeperisemployed the proprietor may `at any time check the bookkeepers work ifhe himself makes up the books of order duplicates at the end of the dayand Writes the page number 13 thereon in his own handwriting, so thatany attempt to erase these numbers and rewrite them may be detected. Inthis Way the proprietor may easily prevent collusion between thebookkeeper and the salesmen and may trace responsibility for errors madeby either. The days business is novv ready for posting in the ledger 15(Fig. 10). As each order duplicate is posted, the number of the page ofthe ledger upon which the account is post.- ed is Written under thenumber of the order duplicate as shown at 141 (Fig. ln the ledger, theday of the month, the page of the book of duplicates, and the amount ofthe purchase is posted. The names of customers are arranged in theledger alphabetically, Which greatly facilitates posting, because theledger index is not required for posting. The ledger index 1G (Fig. 9)is of the usual form.

The cabinet 17 is provided, with a front door S, Which is let down andused as a table, aspreviously described. The cabinet is shown 4asprovided With inner doors 18 and 19. On the outside of doors 18 and 19are placed receptacles 20, preferably in the 'form of hooks, for thepurpose of suspending books 12. Numbers corresponding to the days of themonth are placed on doors 1S and 19 at the hooks, and the book 12 formedfrom each days business is suspended on its corresponding hook.

When all the hooks 20 upon both doors arc 1 beyond the boek withtheldate of the book. A

Thus any book of duplicates required niay be readily withdrawn andreplaced after use.

Having thus described iny invention so that any one skilled in the artpertaining thereto may make and use it, claim- A tiling cabinetcomprising a body portion divided into a plurality of compartments, a,pair of horizontally swinging doors hinged to said body portion andadapted to coinpletely close the front thereof, a vertically swingingdoor hinged to the lower edge of said bodyportion, said door forming atable when in its lowered position, and overlying the inner doors Whenin its closed position, and a plurality of bookreceiving hooks carriedby said inner doors, the upper face of the vertically swinging doorbearing letters of the alphabet.

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